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ORIGINATOR: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
FROM: CIA
TO: DOS

TITLE: [Restricted]

DATE: 08/16/1963
PAGES: 2

SUBJECTS :

CIA LIAISON MATERIAL
HENRYK IGNACY JANIKOWSKI

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
CLASSIFICATION: — Secret
RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C
CURRENT STATUS: — Redact
DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 09/28/1998

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Noe 1. Reference is made to the name check request, dated

4 ‘18 June 1963, subject as above, whose name you desired checked
against the. files.of this office. The files contain the ,
“following information concerning Subject. ON

2, According to a report dated 23 March 1961 [fron an ,-&
official West German se ice the Bremer Bank in pre non {5) £
Germany, reported that the ad r '
thousand dollars from one

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account of one Erik SCHOTT, an a itect residing at Gins emeg

1, Bremen Munthe, West Germany.

3. On the basis of this infqrmation, SCHOTT was ait.
rogated[by the West German service|on 21 November 1961 for ($
possible intelligence inveivement. During the interrogation,
SCHOTT provides the following i nation concerning -Subject:
SCHOTT first ne acquainted Subject in 1940 when he
resided in Subject's home in Ge uy. Subject, who had moved
to Poland, wrote to SCHOTT ina i and asked him to buy used
cars and ship them to him, Swi, & transmitted to SCHOTT
dollars and dollar checks for puvenasing the cars via an
unknown Polish sailor, Subject told SCZOTT that he had’ obtained
. the money on the black market and from exhibitors at the Poznan |
_Pair. SCHOTT believed ‘that Subject obtained the money from -
Poles who had relatives in the United States, Buring a'visit ;
‘to Belgium in 1957, Subject purchased seversi second-hand taxis (|
and cars for shipment to Poland, Subject visited SCHOTT in :
late 1987 and purchased a Renavit to take back withhim to Poland. \
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In 1959 SCHOTT visited Subject in Gdansk, Poland. Subject ;
toid SCHOTT that he could obtain dollars from “an employee — |
of an embassy’t which he would send to SCHOTT for desposit
in his account at the BR ea! ee hes Subject obtained the .
dollars for zlotys a  Snarket exchange rate. SCHOTT's
wife, whe was also i aly ao! pigek | stated that checks arrived :
by mail from an employee of the Mexican Embassy in Warsaw,
Poland, which her husband deposited in Subject's account. ;
Among documents obtained (Officially) from the Bremer Bank was(5)
. & letter from [Mexicaii Ambassador in Warsaw, Eduardo ESPINOSA
_ ¥ PRIET TO,] accompanying a check for one thousand dollars for ($ ; !
deposit. to the account of Erich SCHOTT, Subject told SCH
that in 1950 his maid had reported to the Polish authorities |
that he had dollars in his house. 4s far as SCHOTT knew, rr a
subject was investigated but was never sentenced. On 24 June | /
1961, Subject again visited SCHOTT and from Germany went to J.
Zelzate, Belgiun, to settle a debt from automobile buying ; /.
operations in 1957. Subject visited his sister in Paris, . 4
France, and returned with her to Bremen in a new Peugot which /
he had bought in Holland in his sister’ S name. Subject then
shipped the car to Poland, ;

he According to the West German service “ evidence
was uncovered yhat would indicate SCHOTT was gee ov in . 4
intelligence activities, oe : |

CSCI~3/777 , 473
Encl, i1.name check

(CG: Federal Bureau of Investigation

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